Job Dimensions:

A. Supervision Received

• Reports to and receives technical guidance and operational supervision from designated supervisory personnel. Ensures that work is completed as scheduled.

B. Supervision Exercised

• Provides technical and operational direction to assigned personnel. 

C. Contacts

• Maintains relationships with project personnel, particularly with individual discipline group leaders and engineers.
• May have continuing contacts with Project Manager, project team members, and working and supervisory level personnel of other departments. 

Essential Job Duties:

• Provides comments and recommendations for cost engineering requirements relative to staffing and project control. Prepares detailed staffing plans for cost engineering activities. Reviews design scope criteria and quantities for completeness and reasonableness, and coordinates with the project to develop additional estimating bases when information is incomplete. Establishes the conceptual scope of studies when definition is not available.
• Reviews or assists in reviewing proposal provisions related to cost engineering and material control and develops supporting data for contract negotiations. Obtains vendor information to update the cost data file. Applies material unit rates to quantities. Maintains cost data files.
• Interfaces with designated Bechtel management and client counterparts for specific cost presentations.
• Participates in developing and presenting training classes on designated subjects and on-the-job training for specific processes and practices.
• Conducts personnel performance reviews when delegated. Interviews candidates and makes recommendations for employment decisions.
• Supervises the collection, verification, and integration of work scope for all entities into a total project plan. Supervises the timely preparation of cost estimates. Prepares and analyzes comparisons of scope, quantities, and cost data between the projects. Performs productivity analysis of Construction operations and verifies results. Establishes productivity basis to be utilized in estimates, as developed with the concurrence of Construction. Reviews labor estimates for reasonableness.
• Coordinates the pricing structure or criteria that will be used by each discipline or specialty to meet the objectives of the cost estimate. Establishes format and content of summaries and reconciliations, including segregation of cost according to level of confidence and identification of areas of risk.
• Prepares or reviews distributable and/or contractor’s indirect cost estimates, and develops the basis for temporary facilities, miscellaneous construction services, construction tools and equipment, non-manual manpower, startup services, payroll taxes and insurance, camp facilities and operation, and other field office costs. Researches and develops or reviews tax estimates, including federal, state, and local tax issues. Assists in developing or develops foreign currency and exchange rate estimates.
• Prepares and analyzes comparisons of scope, quantities, and cost data between projects. Develops bid evaluation cost and schedule criteria and prepares bid evaluations. May participate in discussions with vendors.
• Defines project needs for cost control in accordance with established Bechtel and client contractual requirements, objectives, and procedures. Supervises the timely performance of cost control activities. Reviews and critiques designs and specifications for cost effectiveness and suggests alternatives when appropriate.  Prepares or supervises the preparation of cost studies utilizing historical data, statistical analysis, and cost and quantity comparisons. Develops innovative new techniques to meet specific needs, as required. Prepares cost trend estimates in support of project cost trend programs.
• Supervises cost recording, monitoring, and reporting practices for compliance with applicable standards. Supervises and is responsible for the development and accuracy of cost engineering reports. Verifies consistency with previous reports to ensure compatibility. Responsible for issuing reports required by Bechtel management and project procedures.
• Supervises investigating requirements for cost control data for a specific discipline or other specialty applications. Identifies needs for cost analysis support for the project and recommends development or modification of cost engineering data standards. Supervises performance of cost analysis activities within the project.
• Coordinates information input into specific studies. Responsible for integration of activities and total work scope identification. Evaluates study results and recommends conclusions for project team consideration and discussion. Supervises/directs project schedule staffing and quantity reporting.
• Assists in developing unit job hour and pricing data for a specific discipline or other specialty. Performs data analysis, identifies problems, and makes recommendations.
• Creates and implements measurement systems for given processes, analyzes performance metric results, and identifies improvements.  Uses statistical tools to analyze metrics (e.g., regression, analysis of variance, correlation), and analyzes measurement systems to identify bias, repeatability, and stability issues.

Qualifications & Skills:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university and a minimum of 8 years of related work experience, 12 years of related work experience required in lieu of degree.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing cost engineering functions, which include cost estimating, cost control, and cost analysis, in the field and the home office.
• Knowledge of supervision, personnel administration, and training of technical and non-technical personnel.
• Statistical knowledge in the areas of sampling, distributions, probability, and hypothesis testing for metrics.
• Skilled in oral and written communication.
• Proficiency with multiple discipline specific software applications currently used in Bechtel (PC Works or Primavera and Microsoft Office Applications, for example).
• Knowledge of financial reporting systems and controller account codes, and understanding of Controller instructions, which impact Project Controls (including Project Financial Status Reports and Earned Revenue Determination Data).
• Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Intermediate level of knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes, as performed by Bechtel.